Posted on 11/19/2013 10:30:52 PM PST by Morgana
You beat me to it.
My how things change. Thanks for the correction.
Alba-Queerkey!
Actually, this election had record breaking turn out for a special election that had only 2 items on the ballot.
See post #56 with link; 24% of eligible voters (some 80,000+) is not a good voter turnout on this issue. Shows most people are indifferent/too busy with “me, myself, and I” or don’t want to get involved, take a stand on this issue.
Yea the really bad pictures for some reason don’t get the message across.
I guess the “insensitivity” of the person showing the pictures out weights the horrific images being depicted in this messed up society.
I don’t think it’s that, I just think the images are so horrific that people just turn away from them.
For another example I won’t watch any of the scary awful anti-smoking ads - and I’m one of the smokers they are trying to persuade.
But it just evokes a blank-you response in me, so I change the channel.
I think it is a matter of catching more flies with honey than with vinegar.
That’s a good perspective.
This was unconstitutional anyhow. The supreme law of the land absolutely, imperatively, requires equal protection for the God-given, unalienable right to life of every person, not just those older than twenty weeks gestation.
I expect Martinez will probably carry the Hispanic vote next year, if only because the Dems aren’t going to seriously contest the Governorship. NM Dems are going to put most of their resources into holding the legislature, which they have by a very narrow margin.
Good turn out is relative out here.
Susana Martinez did not publicly endorse the abortion ban, by the way.
Her 2010 pro-Life principles seem to have disappeared as the next election comes closer.
There does not seem to have been an “umbrella” organization for pro-Life voters in Albuquerque.
I can't find any individual Hispanic organizations that supported the ban.
On the other side, pro-Abortion groups organized under one name, and La Raza and SEIU(a heavily Hispanic union) joined with them.
Eight state legislators with Hispanic last names, most of them local to Albuquerque, also went pro-Abortion.
I think a lot of pro-Life folks have swallowed the Wall Street Journal and Karl Rove propaganda that Hispanics vote pro-Life.
They are wrong.
In poll after poll, Hispanics overwhelmingly describe themselves as “Conservatives.”
But, in election after election, Hispanics overwhelmingly vote for Democrats.
One final note.
The Pew Hispanic Center, which does the most accurate Hispanic polling, conducted a poll just before the 2010 election.
They asked Hispanics to rank their top ten political issues.
Abortion came in at Number 8.
Another article posted today said the infanticide forces outspent the pro-life forces by a margin of 4-to-1. That’s hard to overcome. If the spending had been the other way around, I think we can guess what the outcome would’ve been.
I disagree.
If Republicans can’t motivate Hispanics to turn out and vote against late term abortions, there is NOTHING we can motivate them to do, no matter how much money we spend.
You and me both brother.
I think money does make the difference, both with advertising and GOTV. I’ve seen many races and initiatives where we’ve come up short solely on the issue of lack of $$.
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